If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen more than a few pictures of my “fur child” Lexie.  She’s an eight year old apricot cockapoo that I got when I graduated college in 2006.  I wanted a dog for as long as I could remember, and I even contemplated getting one junior year of college when some of my guy friends expertly smuggled dogs into their college dorm room — how that got past the RAs, I have…